Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-14
TEXAS IN TYPE.
Clippings from State Exchanges on Matters
of Interest


of Interest.
Ladonia is soon to have 8 three-story
brick hotel.
Temple will have big fair and stock
show this fall.
Waxahachie voted against the school
tax by ITO 10 co.
Locating surveyors are placing settlers
in Potter county.
Crop prospects throughout Henderson
county were never better. -
The school lands Of Carson county
have been filed by immigration.
In Erath county it is thought two
thirds of a crop of corn is assured.
Itasca grows so rapidly that it is i'm
possible 10 keep up with the progress of
things.
The increased acreage planted in cot
ton this year in McLennan county is IS
per cent.
Clay county farmers are now reaping
from eight to thirty bushels of wheat to
the acre.
The scholastic population OF Grimes
county stand 2l59 white and 1882 colored
children.
Towns are being laid off and plated
near the centers of both Ochiltree and
Hansford counties.
Corn is silking and tasseling in Jones
county, and the watermelon crop prom
Uses to be immense.
The Baptists of Sherman propose to
purchase and place under their control
SHERMAN Institute"
Carson, Potter and Randall counties
are said to be booming. Carson City has
applied for q postofiCe.
The cotton crop in Hood county was
never more promising. In some places
the bolls are well formed.
The roller mill at Santa Anna is near
completion, aud it is expected to be in
running order by August l.
Wolfe City is still improving real estate
changing hands and new houses going up
in different parts of the town.
William Roseubaum, who was edjudged
insane in San Antonio, will be taken by
his father to some private asylum.
The northern and Canadian round-ups
expect to arrive in Mobee,ie the last of
this week. This work is SAID to be in
good shape.
Johnson county will yield more small
grain than for several years past. Pros
poets for corn and cotton at this period
were never better.
Twenty thousand seven hundred acres
of the Tyler Tap land in Carson county
has been bought at 81 so per acre for 9
Kansas corporation.
John Gray's premises, four miles west
of Kingston, was invaded by two cougars.
They killed twenty-five ducks and es-
capped to the woods.
Mrs. Parks of Clay county, the other
day with d Winchester rife, killed q snake
seven and one half feet long and measur-
ing eight inches around.
As an evidence that Cooke county is
developing her fruit industry, peaches in
to the western counties.
The corn crop of Titus county is
simply immense, and if present prospt cts
hold out this county will raise enough
corn this year to run her for two years to
come.
The crops around Taylor are said to be
fine; the small grain Will not be an aver
age crop. The farmers are busy trying
to keep down weeds aud grass in the
cotton.
Some wheat crops will average as high
as twenty-five bushels per acre in Nc
LenCan county, while others will
60 as low as four bushels. The grain
is well mstured and makes fine -four.
The Merchants Exchange of Waco is
an assured fact 1t will be six stories
high, and in ell probability will be located
where the old market now stands, oppo-
site the new Federal courthouse. 1t will
be magnificent structure.
A centenarian named ASS Billiard is
living in the southwest portion of John
son county. He is q native of South
Carolina, but has lived IN Texas many
years. 1t is said that bis extreme age
has not impaired his mind.